Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-27
"MANAGEs TO GET ALONG. !"

The Republican organ boastfully re-
marks that it pays out more money to its
employees than all of it's contemporaries
combined. If it had said interest money
1t would probably have been nearer cor
rect. THE DEMOCRAT pays the best prices
of any paper in the city. The Re-
publican organs matter is to great
extent set for 25 cents per thousand ems.
The DEMOCRAT pays the regular union
rates forevening papers, namely, As cents,
and has only two 35 cent. and no 25 cent.
eompositors on its pay roll. 1t more
over pays them in cash, and with
out obliging them to take one-third
or one-fourth of their wages in tithing
house orders, which cannot be cashed for
more than fifty cents on the dollar. 1t is
not the custom of the DEMOCRAT to COM
ment upon the business matters of its
contemporaries, but when such an un-
blushing whopper is perpetrated,
il feels itself justified in noticing
it, and relating a few truths
in regard to itself. 1t is true that the
Republican organ has managed some
how to get along" 1t would be strange,
indeed, if it had not. Established by
generous contributions, largely by DEM
ocrats, when the present management
assumed control, it was the most infu-
ential and best paying paper be-
tween the Missouri River and
San Francisco. 1t was then, what
it professed to be, non-political, indie
pendent Gentle journal. Under its
present management it has degenerated
into the mostsbitter and venomous parti-
Ean sheet west of the Mississippi river.
Such a policy naturally disgusteI
q large number of persons, and
especially Democrats, who had previ-
ously been its most generous supporters
and patrons. "a number of gentlemen
determined that the organ should not
continue to sail under the false colors of
independent journalism, while constantly
villifying in the most offensive manner
Democrats and Democracy, so they
formed company and started this paper,
THE DEMOCRAT has had to struggle against
an alliance between the Republican organ
and the Mormon papers to squelch, by
protesting to ignore it. the almost daily
illusions of each, however, to matter ap-
pearing in our columns, without mention
ing the name of the paper, plainly
indicated how copiously they were
bleeding inwardly. Their efforts to
emulate the heroism of the
Spartan boy were rendered ridiculous
by their squirming endeavors to conceal
their agony and the cause of it. In the
meantime THE DEMOCRAT has not been
ignored by the people. 1t has been
steadily progressing during the past year,
until it is now upon a paying basis,
and is as firmly established in Salt
Lake City as is the Herald or World
in New York. To effect this, not a dollar
has been contributed by anyone outside
of THE DEMOCRAT Company. In fact, it
may be said that there have been no
contributions, as every member who
helped to sustain the paper during its
struggling period were reimbursed by
the issuance of stock which could be sold
to-day for the price paid by the purchas-
ers. 1t is safe to assert that it did not
cost one-twentieth part of the money to
place The DEMOCRAT upon paying basis
by the owners, that was contributed out
right to place the now Republican organ
in the same position. Our circulation has
more than trebled since the first of last
May, and during the present month we
have been obliged to refuse a large num-
ber of advertisements for want of space.
This difficulty will, however, be overcome
next Monday, when THE DEMOCRAT will
be enlarged to q 32-column paper. We
are, in fact, inclined to the impression
that The DEMOCRAT will manage some
how to get along" The people of Utah
and the surrounding States and Terri
tories have somehow" come to the
knowledge Of the existence of the paper,
despite the efforts of the Republican and
Mormon city press to conceal the fact
from the outside world.
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